Adil Jussawalla The Poet

Adil Jussawalla is a poet of Bombay Writing of the Bombayan inner scpaes Depicting and describing As per the models of the Eliotesque hollow men And the sterile and arid waste land, Audensesque and Spenderian. A poet of Bombay, he is outlandish As well as islandish, Telling of England and Bombay often, His life and times in England, Spent, His life and times passing in India. A modern hollow man seems to be the poetic persona, the protagonist and the mouthpiece of his, A modern city man, That too of the metropolitan town, the megacity Of the bristling commercial hub The crux of his poetry. A poet Bombayan, he is of Bombay And his mind can nowhere Barring it, A Parsi he has the tales of his own To tell, Drawing from Parsi ethos and heritage. A Parsi, he writes the poetry of the no-man, The hollow men, The missing man, The poet goes missing Resurfacing after a gap a break of so long years, The absentee poet.